Orange Rind Cake with Lemon Curd Filling

Ingredients for Orange Rind Cake with Lemon Curd Filling:

1. Maida – 250 gm

    Baking powder – 2.5 small spoons

2. Butter – 250 gms

    Sugar powdered – 250 gm

3. Yellow yolk – 5

4. Orange juice – From 1 orange

    Orange skin peeled – 1 small spoon

5. White yolk – 5

6. Vanilla essence – ½ small spoon

For filling:

7. Lemon juice – ¼ cup

    Lemon skin grated fine – 2 small spoons

    Sugar – 1/3^rd cup

    Yellow yolk – 4

    Salted butter – 3 big spoon

For butter cream:

8. Icing sugar – 1.5 cups

    Butter – 100 gm

How to prepare Orange Rind Cake with Lemon Curd Filling?

1. Pre-heat oven in 180 degree celsious.

2. Blend maida and baking powder together.

3. Beat butter and sugar till it turns soft.

4. Add yellow yolk and continue beating till it turns soft.

5. Add orange juice and orange skin and mix the contents well.

6. Add maida mixture and beaten egg white mixture alternatively and mix well.

7. Add vanilla essence too, and pour this batter to baking tin.

8. Bake your cake for 30 minutes in pre-heated oven.

9. To prepare filling, transfer ingredients no: 7 to a bowl.

10. Immense the bowl in boiling water and using double boiling method, boil the contents.

11. Keep stirring and boil the contents till it thickens.

12. When the mixture sticks on to the back side of spoon, take the bowl from boiling water.

13. You can store this lemon curd in refrigerator for future use. Store it in an air-tight container.

14. To prepare butter cream, beat icing sugar and butter till they turn soft.

15. When small hill like structures appear on the surface, continue beating.

16. Add 4 big spoons of lemon curd to it (or as needed) and mix well. This is the filling.

17. Cut the cake into two halves and spread the filling in between the layers and the top.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, December 1 – 14, 2019

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